REVIEW: Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac
with Native TRIM Support

There are many great choices for third party 6Gbps SSDs these days. However, none of them have native Mac TRIM support -- except the Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac. We decided to benchmark it inside our 2010 Mac Pro tower.

WHAT DID WE LEARN?The Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac performed flawlessly in our testing. System Profiler reports "YES" for TRIM Support -- just as it does for Apple proprietary flash storage. As you probably already know, TRIM commands inform the SSD's controller which blocks of data are no longer needed and can be wiped.

It is true that OS X Yosemite and El Capitan will enable TRIM on third party SSDs when you execute the 'sudo trimforce enable' in Terminal. But this is not officially supported by Apple and is accompanied with a scary warning message. That's because certain brands and certain models of SSDs don't support TRIM properly. With the Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac, there is no guess work and no action needed to enable TRIM.

The Mac Pro tower's 3Gbps factory drive bay is convenient but restricts the throughput. When upgrading your Mac Pro tower with a 6Gbps SSD like the Angelbird wrk for Mac, you will want an SSD PCIe adapter to squeeze out maximum performance.

For even greater transfer speeds, choose an SSD PCIe adapter that accepts multiple SSDs (like the FirmTek SeriTek/i6G and Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro Plus). Note that you can use SSD PCIe adapters to install the Angelbird SSD wrk for Mac in a Thunderbolt expansion chassis.